Christian Louboutin Quotes & Sayings

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know? — Christian Louboutin

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way. — Christian Louboutin

I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring. — Christian Louboutin

Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people. — Christian Louboutin

Bhutan is a very serene country with an incredible history. It has an incredible group of great artisans. — Christian Louboutin

For me there ain't no high heel high enough. — Christian Louboutin

Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee! — Christian Louboutin

I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor? Too dirty! Air-hostess? Maybe not! Then someone gave me a book on Roger Vivier, and, cheri, instantly I knew that was it! — Christian Louboutin

When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn't really looking at her shoes - she's looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes. — Christian Louboutin

Breakfast is a peaceful moment for me, so I never have the radio on, no music, no noise around. The only noise that is permitted is people's voices. It's a way for me to wake up without too much of a high speed feeling. — Christian Louboutin

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men. But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won't do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon! — Christian Louboutin

Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. — Christian Louboutin

I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that. — Christian Louboutin

What is sexual in a high heel is the arch of the foot, because it is exactly the position of a woman's foot when she orgasms ... So putting your foot in a heel, you are putting yourself in a possibly orgasmic situation. — Christian Louboutin

Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. I compare it to having a good bone structure. Make-up will make you look good, but it helps if you have a good skeleton to begin with. — Christian Louboutin

I could not live with someone 24/7. I just never did, and I could never do. — Christian Louboutin

Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another. — Christian Louboutin

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy. — Christian Louboutin

I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.' — Christian Louboutin

If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax. — Christian Louboutin

It is extremely necessary to realize that the world doesn't only have one way of seeing things. — Christian Louboutin

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping. — Christian Louboutin

My job is designing shoes. It's work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts. — Christian Louboutin

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men. Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole. — Christian Louboutin

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things. — Christian Louboutin

Meet people from other cultures, so you understand that the world doesn't swirl around you. — Christian Louboutin

If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England. — Christian Louboutin

My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life. — Christian Louboutin

When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can't go to the loo, that's where I draw the line! — Christian Louboutin

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place. It's like voodoo; we don't want things that are soaked in blood, sweat, and tears. I adore life, and I'm very easygoing - and it shows in my work. — Christian Louboutin

People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.' — Christian Louboutin

People ask me all the time, 'How can I walk in these heels?' I answer with the best compliment I remember that came from a woman who lives here in Paris ... I know my street much better. Heels permit me to take the time to look at the architecture of my street. Now I take time to look at things.' High heels give you time to think, to look at your surroundings- a camel has seen more in life than a very quick horse! Women should live to rhythm of high-heeled shoes! — Christian Louboutin

I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving. — Christian Louboutin

High heels are pleasure with pain. — Christian Louboutin

I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine. — Christian Louboutin

These heels are candy for the feet; they're for pleasure, not practicality. — Christian Louboutin

The red sole was born from red nail polish. I am giving back to beauty what the shoes took from the nails many years ago. — Christian Louboutin

I wanted to create something that broke rules and made women feel confident and empowered. — Christian Louboutin

People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not against them, but comfort is not my focus. — Christian Louboutin

It is a great thing to be at your age ... You are at a very specific time of age ... an age where you can follow all your dreams. But also at an age when you can change-you can change your dreams, you can change paths. When you start something when you're young, you should not decide 'this is it, this is my way and I will go all the way.' You have the age where you can change. You get experience, and maybe dislike it and go another way. Your age is still an age of exploration. — Christian Louboutin

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes. — Christian Louboutin

Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous. — Christian Louboutin

Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings. — Christian Louboutin

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! — Christian Louboutin

Really good shoes have to seduce both men and women. — Christian Louboutin

One moves more slowly in heels. Walking fast is neither sexy nor engaging. Nobody notices the people who race around. If you're walking in heels, you've got time. It's much more attractive. — Christian Louboutin

A good shoe is one that doesn't dress you but undresses you. — Christian Louboutin

A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it's not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone's body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest. — Christian Louboutin

There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes. — Christian Louboutin

I hate the whole concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable! — Christian Louboutin

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally. — Christian Louboutin

Some people don't even know my name, but they know I am the man with the red soles. — Christian Louboutin

In designing shoes for myself; I'm not thinking of a specific person or catwalk. I'm just not thinking of clothes at all. I'm always thinking of a naked woman, actually. — Christian Louboutin

I love David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive;' such a wonderful movie. — Christian Louboutin

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled. — Christian Louboutin

I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them. — Christian Louboutin

I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people. — Christian Louboutin

My business partner gave me a drone, a small helicopter you pilot with an iPhone, and also it has a camera so you can see what it sees on the iPhone. Great fun. I fly it outside in Portugal. It's wonderful to oversee gardens. — Christian Louboutin

When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city. — Christian Louboutin

In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with. — Christian Louboutin

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. — Christian Louboutin

Be completely true to yourself and you'll be happy. — Christian Louboutin

If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive. — Christian Louboutin

There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty. — Christian Louboutin

Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people. — Christian Louboutin

The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don't have. — Christian Louboutin

I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back. — Christian Louboutin

A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool. — Christian Louboutin

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it. — Christian Louboutin

A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman. — Christian Louboutin

My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance. — Christian Louboutin

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege. — Christian Louboutin

Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a symbol of a lot of culture. It has a different signification but never a bad one. — Christian Louboutin

Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents. — Christian Louboutin

A good host is someone who really takes care of everyone, from the food to their daily programme. I can't. — Christian Louboutin

It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else — Christian Louboutin

Something I really hate more than anything else is clogs. — Christian Louboutin

Passage Vero-Dodat - I started my company on this passage. It feels as much home as it can! — Christian Louboutin

I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana. — Christian Louboutin

The designer side of me has many ideas on how the shoes or woman should look, but the man is thinking 'would I want to see my girl in those shoes?'. — Christian Louboutin

I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!' — Christian Louboutin

I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be. — Christian Louboutin

The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched. — Christian Louboutin

I'm very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I'm really concentrated. — Christian Louboutin

I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side. — Christian Louboutin

I guess, being French, I love Hollywood. — Christian Louboutin

You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine. — Christian Louboutin

When you do something you love, you have a passion for it. It comes naturally. Staying true to yourself and doing what you love keeps you going ... everything else falls into place. — Christian Louboutin

I sketch literally all the time; constructing a collection is like building a family - you have to have a certain balance. I isolate myself - I need to be concentrated for this so I leave Paris, I leave to a place without a phone. — Christian Louboutin

You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort. — Christian Louboutin

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance. — Christian Louboutin

I am more feminist than feminists. — Christian Louboutin

I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up. — Christian Louboutin

Designing my shoes, I'm thinking timeless. Not trendy. — Christian Louboutin

To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches. — Christian Louboutin

If I'm in Italy, I'm going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don't drink tea in Italy. — Christian Louboutin

I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.' — Christian Louboutin

I'm really not a fascist. Everyone wears what they feel great in, or comfortable with. It's a beautiful day, you have an armless shirt: it goes with flip-flops. — Christian Louboutin

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing ... but that's impossible. — Christian Louboutin

A lot of men said they were jealous of me because my shoes excite women in a way they can't — Christian Louboutin